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Fumihiko Maki

We mourn the loss of Fumihiko Maki (1928 – 2024), architect, educator and 1993 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize. At the time, the Jury revealed, “he is a modernist who has fused the best of both eastern and western cultures to create an architecture representing the age-old qualities of his native country while at the same time juxtaposing contemporary construction methods and materials.”

Using lightness and transparency to expand space and achieve scale, Maki created built works diverse in form and function, that responded to societal need. During his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize, he remarked, “[a]n ever-present guide to the thoughts of the designer, sensitivity to other human beings and human situations—or its lack—will be evident in the resulting architecture and will certainly influence whether it will be deemed good or bad.”

Credited with actively reshaping post-war Japan, Maki’s influence was also consistent and international, evidenced by a range of civic, cultural and academic institutions spanning seven decades and many nations. Works include Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada 2014), Shimizu Performing Arts Centre (Shizuoka, Japan 2014), 4 World Trade Center (New York, United States of America 2013), Floating Pavilion (Groningen, Netherlands 1996), Yerba Buena Center for Arts (San Francisco, United States of America 1993), Makuhari Messe (Chiba, Japan 1989), National Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan 1986) and Spiral (Tokyo, Japan 1985).

He once described Tokyo, Chicago and Prague as “child fantasy, collective individualism and concern for humanity and history, respectively,” and wondered, “aren’t these also the very essences of modernity?”

The architect attended University of Tokyo, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Harvard Graduate School of Design before founding Maki and Associates in 1965. Maki served as a professor at Harvard University, Washington University and University of Tokyo, and was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 2011.

Ceremony Videos

Below are links to view ceremony videos for the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
These videos, featuring full-length and highlight reels, are also available by
visiting the individual Laureate sections.

Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH
2023 Laureate
The Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece 
Ceremony videos

Diébédo Francis Kéré
2022 Laureate
The Marshall Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom 
Ceremony videos

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
2021 Laureates
Online Ceremony
Ceremony videos

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
2020 Laureates
Online Ceremony
Ceremony videos

Arata Isozaki
2019 Laureate
Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
Ceremony videos

Balkrishna Doshi
2018 Laureate
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Ceremony videos

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta
2017 Laureates
State Guest House, Akasaka Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Ceremony videos

Alejandro Aravena
2016 Laureate
United Nations Headquarters, New York, New York
Ceremony videos

Frei Otto
2015 Laureate
The New World Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Ceremony videos

Shigeru Ban
2014 Laureate
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ceremony videos

Toyo Ito
2013 Laureate
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,
Boston, Massachusetts
Ceremony videos

Wang Shu
2012 Laureate
The Great Hall of the People, Beijing, 
The People’s Republic of China
Ceremony videos

Eduardo Souto de Moura
2011 Laureate
The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Washington D.C.
Ceremony videos

Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
2010 Laureates
Immigration Museum, Ellis Island, New York Bay
Ceremony videos

Peter Zumthor
2009 Laureate
Palace of the Buenos Aires City Legislature,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ceremony videos
 

Jean Nouvel
2008 Laureate
The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Ceremony videos

Richard Rogers
2007 Laureate
Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace, London, United Kingdom
Ceremony videos

Paulo Mendes da Rocha
2006 Laureate
Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Ceremony videos


Thom Mayne
2005 Laureate
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Ceremony videos


Zaha Hadid
2004 Laureate
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ceremony videos


Jørn Utzon
2003 Laureate
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
Ceremony videos


Glenn Murcutt
2002 Laureate
Michelangelo’s Campidoglio, Rome, Italy
Ceremony videos

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
2001 Laureates
Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia
Ceremony videos


Rem Koolhaas
2000 Laureate
Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel
Ceremony videos

Archive

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, founded in 1979, seeks to maintain many of the documents, images, videos, and other materials related to its history. If you have a specific query about rights and reproductions or other media-related questions, please contact Director of Communications Eunice Kim. For all other inquiries, please contact Executive Director Manuela Lucá-Dazio.